Shrilaxmi’s Reviews > Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst > Status Update

It can be an informative political litmus test to consider whose pain you readily feel (e.g., a fetus versus a homeless person).

... about two thirds of everyday conversation is gossip, with the vast majority of it being negative. As has been said, gossip (with the goal of shaming) is a weapon of the weak against the powerful. It has always been fast and cheap and is infinitely more so now in the era of the Scarlet Internet.

People who heroically refuse to look the other way, who do the right thing even when it carries the ultimate cost—tend to be surprisingly normal. The stars didn't align at their births; doves of peace did not envelop them when they strode. They put their pants on one leg at a time. This should be a huge source of strength for us.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don't.

Evolution is to analogy as statues are to birdshit. Haha!

Violence can arise due to the structure of boundaries between groups rather than as a result of inherent conflicts between the groups themselves.

People who feel helpless don't join organizations.

Ask not what a gene does. Ask what it does in a particular environment and when expressed in a particular network of other genes.

Third time's the charm. I am starting to read this yet again.